{"id":37720,"date":"2023-09-27T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=37720"},"modified":"2023-09-28T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:45:32","slug":"origins-saturns-rings-highlighted-new-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/origins-saturns-rings-highlighted-new-simulations\/37720\/","title":{"rendered":"Origins of Saturn\u2019s rings highlighted in new simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"
A new series of supercomputer simulations has provided an insight into the origins of Saturn\u2019s rings.<\/h2>\n
Research from NASA and Durham and Glasgow Universities has shown that Saturn\u2019s rings could have originated from the debris of two progenitor icy moons that collided and shattered a few hundred million years ago.<\/p>\n
It is expected that the moons would have been similar in size to Dione and Rhea, two of Saturn\u2019s current moons.<\/p>\n
The formation of these moons, and other current moons, could have also been partly due to debris that didn\u2019t end up on the rings after the collision.<\/p>\n